Granite Game Summit 2024 (plus Boston and Salem)
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
2d ago
My husband and I took a trip to New England earlier this month to attend Granite Game Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, which is an hour north of Boston. The convention was on March 7-10, 2024. I had never been to Granite Game Summit, but Chris had and enjoyed attending a few times when he lived on the East Coast. The convention is held at the Doubletree Hotel in Nashua every year, and attendance is capped at 525 people. We also got to explore Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, before the convention. More on that at the end of this post! And before we begin, this is probably one of the ..read more
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Top 10 games I played for the first time in 2023
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
3M ago
Hello, friends! You’ve made it to the end of 2023. Pat yourselves on the back for surviving the year! I feel so lucky for all that happened this past year, including going back to the Philippines and attending several gaming conventions! And of course lots of gaming in between. Here are the top 10 games I played for the first time this past year.  10. Scout  I often keep Scout in my purse because it’s such a compact game and easy to each others. Scout is a delightful ladder-climbing game in which cards have two potential values, players may not rearrange their hand of cards, and play ..read more
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Votes for Women: Campaigning to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
3M ago
This review of Votes for Women is featured on Episode 134 of The Five By. Check out the rest of the episode, which also features HerStory, Detective Rummy, Steam Up and Don’t Talk to Strangers. There are very few board games where I can imagine myself in. Did I, as a young Filipina lady growing up in Los Angeles, ever dream about trading in the Mediterranean or breeding sheep in the German countryside? No, of course not. But joining in the women’s suffrage movement and being eternally grateful for those people who helped usher in my right — and many other women’s rights — to vote? Sign me up ..read more
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SDHist Con 2023: Molly House, Shores of Tripoli, Fire and Stone: Siege of Vienna, Ahoy
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by Meeple Lady
4M ago
On Nov. 2, 2023, I made the trek from Phoenix to San Diego for SDHist Con, an annual historical board game convention that was founded by game designer Harold Buchanan. This year it was held on Nov. 3-5, 2023. It’s my second time attending the convention in person, and after last year’s convention, I knew this one was a must-attend-every-year convention for me. This year, about 150 tickets were handed out, a combination of gamers, designers and publishers alike. It’s the convention to playtest and pitch your game, meet with wargaming companies, and, just overall, enjoy the sea, sun and seafood ..read more
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Fit To Print: Read all about it!
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
5M ago
This review of Fit To Print is featured on Episode 140 of The Five By. Check out the rest of the episode, which also features Legacy of Yu, Sea Salt & Paper, Flamecraft and Rise. As someone who started their career in the newspaper world, it’s rare to see a board game with that exact theme. So, when I saw the Kickstarter for Fit to Print, I immediately backed it. When it finally arrived on my front door, like the morning edition of the daily paper, I was so excited to get the game on table, to see if this tile-laying real-time game captures the essence of what it’s like to assemble the fr ..read more
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Starry Night Sky: Twinkling stars and exploring the constellations
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
8M ago
Arizona is a great place for stargazing — it is even home to 19 dark-sky communities! There’s something so magical about looking up at the sky and imagining far-away stars and galaxies. Exploring the cosmos will probably not be something us non-millionaires can do in our lifetime, but on a game table, Starry Night Sky transports you to the heavens and the twinkle of the stars.   Starry Night Sky is the latest from Emma Larkins. Look at that box art! Starry Night Sky, designed by Emma Larkins (who also designed the adorable card game Abandon All Artichokes), is published by Buffalo Games a ..read more
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RinCon 2023: Back better than ever in Tucson!
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
9M ago
What a difference nearly a year makes! After holding last fall’s convention in tandem with Tucson Comic- Con, RinCon held its annual board-game convention on its own again — and in a new location at the Casino Del Sol Resort and Casino in June.  Having the option to stay at the hotel (which I did) where the convention is happening makes the entire weekend more relaxing and convenient. I didn’t have to schlep all my games around, and, if I needed a quick break, I’d just hop on up to my hotel room, which is easily accessible from the convention gaming area, which had plenty of room and tabl ..read more
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Friendship Con 2023: Ark Nova, BSG and multiple Chudyk games
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by Meeple Lady
10M ago
Hello, friends! It’s been a busy few months (I feel like all of adulthood is saying this phrase over and over again but I digress). In between multiple trips and family coming to visit, I managed to get some gaming in. Most notably, last month I saw my friends in Atlanta where we met up for our annual Friendship Con.  Upon arriving in Atlanta on a Wednesday night, we all went out for dinner at Ponce City Market. This place is so neat! It’s a big fancy food court inside a converted Sears building from the 1920s. I most definitely enjoyed this Thai iced tea popsicle from King of Pops.  ..read more
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We went to the Philippines and played some games! 
Meeple Lady
by Meeple Lady
1y ago
In February, my husband and I went to the Philippines and had an amazing time with family in the Manila area. We even visited two other islands! For those unfamiliar, the Philippines has over 7,500 islands, with Luzon the biggest and most populous island and it’s where the nation’s capital Manila is located. It has been decades since I’ve gone back to the motherland, and there is something truly special about connecting with relatives you haven’t seen in person in a long while, while being around the culture and people just like you — all the Filipinos!  During my trip, I was able to squ ..read more
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War Room: Where Axis and Allies meets Diplomacy
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by Meeple Lady
1y ago
I recently got a chance to play another all-day game of the global WWII game War Room. And by all day, the game continued on for about 8 hours before folks decided to wrap it up because it seemed inevitable that the Axis were going to win in one to two turns. After 8 hours, we had taken seven turns, so it could conceivably have continued for another one to two hours — and it was getting late already. I’ve played this game twice already, and this time I was on the Axis’ team as scrappy little Italy holding on to assist stronger Axis powers and being a big pain in the butt against Great Britain ..read more
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